one day I’ll know what this is all about . . .

You wait all year for a birthday cake . . .

In this case, Mr. Pict whose birthday was yesterday. I dutifully made the cake that you see above (Nigella’s Butterscotch Layer Cake, I think I overcooked the caramel slightly but it’s still pretty good), but he came home from school with two more – a very nice chocolate cake with the Silverstone Circuit marked out on the top, and little stand-up characters from Tooned. The other, relating to his other great interest, football, was modelled as a Charlton Athletic (yes, I know, improbable isn’t it?) shirt, with his name and age on it. But it’s huge! So we are now exceedingly rich in cake, which is no bad thing really, although it’s going to do nothing for our collective waistlines!